The Quantum Cold War: Science "Advances", Markets Lose Discipline
Washington "funds", Beijing "speculates", and retail piles in. Google’s new milestone fuels another round of quantum exuberance—but commercialization and profitability are nowhere in sight.
The Illusion of Supremacy Returns
Google Quantum AI’s latest publication in Nature on October 22, 2025, represents the company’s most assertive claim since its 2019 “quantum supremacy” announcement: the demonstration of what it now terms a verifiable quantum advantage.
The experiment was conducted on Willow, Google’s next-generation superconducting proce…
